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Legendary UK photographer Steve Gullick has hand picked a selection of his photography collection for an new exhibition titled ‘punk as fuck‘ featuring his work throughout the years of grunge and punk in the 90’s.

The snaps, originally published in the now defunct weekly music magazines Sounds & Melody Maker, will be showcased at INDO, 133 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1DT between March 1st & 31st 2013, admission is free.

Expect to see Gullick’s iconic photographs of everyone from Seattle’s Nirvana to Sunderland’s Leatherface in all their ‘in the flesh’ analogue glory.

We are proud to announce a jam celebrating a decade of Crossfire Xmas Jam events. This milestone will be heavily celebrated with one of the very best skate sessions you will ever attend on Saturday 15th December from 12-6pm at BaySixty6 skatepark in London. The address is 65-66 Acklam Road, London, W10 5YU. Map here.

Entry is £10 on the door and £7 in advance from Slam City Skates and Stand Up Skate Shop.

The 10th Anniversary Crossfire Xmas Jam 2012 is in association with Ricta Wheels, and sponsored by DGK, Superdead Skateboards, Grizzly Griptape, HUF, Sidewalk, Slam City Skates and Stand Up Skate Shop. All involved will have various best trick comps planned on the day in the street course. The Ricta Wheels bowl jam will kick off from 4pm, so expect absolute carnage throughout the day, with many NBD’s put down at the new park. £1000 cash prizes will be handed out on the day for guest pro’s and ams.

From midday, traditional unsponsored best trick jams will see £500 worth of shop vouchers from Slam City Skates and Stand Up Skate Shop up for grabs in the street course. Yep, it’s time to raise your game. We will also host two video premiere’s on the day via the big screen that will also be announced soon.

HUF BEST TRICK COMP: Highest ollie comp over the driveway.DGK BEST TRICK COMP: Best Hubba trickSUPERDEAD BEST TRICK COMP: Best gap trick across the entranceGRIZZLY GRIPTAPE BEST TRICK COMP: Best tricks on the quad ledge

Plan ahead and arrange your travel and accommodation. Look out for an announcement soon and cut and paste this flyer and post to share with others. It means so much to roll this jam out for you. Thanks for ten years of your fantastic support.

After Party information:

The Xmas Jam will be followed by a warehouse party and the UK premiere of the much the highly anticipated DGK video ‘Parental Advisory‘ in association with I-Five Distribution.

This event will take place in the Pop Up Cinema on the same road at BaySixty6 skate park (near Portobello Rd) followed by a warehouse party in the same location from 7pm-1am.

The legendary R-Cade Skatepark in Redcar is undergoing a complete re-build courtesy of Four One Four Skateparks right now. As you can see from these pics that have emerged this week, the bowl is about to get it’s first skin of ply and the rest of the park is coming along nicely.

R-Cade can be found at Majuba Road, Redcar, Cleveland TS10 5BJ, United Kingdom. Call 01642 483 520 for details of the opening date.

What a weekend for skateboarding in the capital. After a 2 month wait, the new Baysixty6 skate park re-opened with a full house to skate what NikeSB had delivered in the re-build. Various team riders opened the park with the first NBD’s on what will be a long list in years to come.

We will drop a video edit from the session very soon but the est news is that the park is now open again. Session times are below. Each session is £7. Beginners weekend session is £4. After school club £2.

Derby’s scene are in for a treat this month as Rollersnakes have built what looks like a killer little indoor park built by Craig Smedley, Dave Rampchild and Adam Boyfield to fight the winter ahead and also jumped through hoops to make their TF publicly accessible so you can skate it on special occasions.

The Vault will be open on 24th August for the first one off public session with BBQ and good times. You will need to fill out forms of consent to skate it, so head over here to find out more details.

London skaters are looking forward to yet another concrete skatepark likely to be open to the public very soon. Gravity Skateparks are behind the new project at Lloyds Park in Walthamstow that includes banks, ledges, hip, rail, a bowled corner and much more. It’s said to be almost complete but not open, so don’t turn up there expecting a session until it’s officially ready to skate but look forward to fresh ‘crete for the Spring.